California is in trouble. For the first time since a prospector struck gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1849, California has recorded an annual net loss in population. The state’s population, which has for years been inching toward the 40-million mark, actually dipped by 182,083 people last year as Californians packed …
Today, at the request of several followers and subscribers, I am reposting a commentary I did a while back about the late Kurt Vonnegut. It is jam-packed with great advice on writing. Enjoy! It’s been 14 years since the world lost Kurt Vonnegut–one of America’s greatest writers and writing teachers. …
Boo Hoo. Millions of mask-loving leftists and other human-sheep must be bawling their eyes out at this news. I have never seen so many people dedicated to wearing face masks in my life—unless of course, we are talking about people who admire Spiderman, Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter, Leatherface, or Doctor …
George Orwell once made this prescient statement: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” Guess who was listening to the author of 1984? Joe Biden was. So were the leaders of the American Federation of Teachers Union, the bogus …
Back in 1975 B.C. (Before Cyberspace), I lugged a 17-pound Olivetti Lettera 32 portable typewriter from the jungles of Cambodia to the central highlands of Vietnam as I covered the fall of both countries to communist forces. That Olivetti never failed me, though it took a severe pounding as I …
I recently read a new book by Kathleen Brush, Ph.D. entitled “Racism and anti-Racism in the World: before and after 1945.” It does a good job of arguing against the B.S. being spewed by President Biden, Black Lives Matter, the 1619 Project, and the “Border Czarina” aka Kamala Harris. The …
I never thought I would see the day when a U.S. president would lead the way in the obliteration of America. But that is exactly what is happening today. And it is quite possible Joe Biden doesn’t even know that he is doing it. The man who is squatting in …
[Yesterday, I posted about the Ken Burns documentary/biography on Ernest Hemingway that is currently airing on PBS and the pilgrimage I made to Hemingway’s house in Key West, Florida. Hemingway lived in the house in the 1930s during the apex of his career as a novelist. In this post, I …
PBS is currently running a new three-part documentary about Ernest Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick which explores the famous author’s own image-making. In the documentary, we see Hemingway as a “man’s man–” a battle-hardened war veteran, a big game hunter, a deep-sea fisherman, a brawler, a boozer, a …
I don’t know who E.P. Unum is–though I do know that handle stands for E Pluribus Unum. Those Latin words are the traditional motto of the United States and mean: “Out of many, one.” So, whoever is writing under the name of “E. P. Unum” is paying homage to one …